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A Tire and Loading Information label is attached to the vehicle’s center pillar (B-pillar), below the driver’s door latch. This label shows your vehicle’s original equipment tires and the correct inflation pressures for your tires when they are cold. The recommended cold tire inflation pressure, shown on the label, is the minimum amount of air pressure needed to support your vehicle’s maximum load carrying capacity. For additional information regarding how much weight your vehicle can carry, and an example of the tire and loading information label, see Loading Your Vehicle on page 4-31.
Sarah, GM Customer Service
Too bad Chevrolet did not take over the partnership with Toyota after the demise of Pontiac to keep the Vibe available. Maybe it could have been a revival of the Chevette nameplate!!
I have a Pontiac 2009 Vibe that has developed a rotational noise in one of the front wheels...it makes a row row row sound at speeds around 20-30 MPH...both front wheel bearings have been replaced and the wheels aligned....what is wrong with my Vibe to cause this sound?
Hi stan92,
Did you have the front wheel bearings repaired at the dealership recently? I only ask because there is a 12 month/12k mile parts warranty once a repair is performed. If you're interested in having a dealership check into this for you, I'd be happy to reach out to them on your behalf. Please private message me your contact information, VIN, mileage and preferred dealership if I can be of assistance.
Amber N.
GM Customer Care
If both front bearing hubs have been replaced, you probably heard a noise from one of them. Sometimes bearing noises differ. This may be a bearing even if it's different than the original noise you might have heard from a defective bearing.
The replacements should be under warranty.
However, I would look very carefully at the tires. If they are 4-5 years or more old, the tread may have hardened and the tread may not have worn evenly. You may be hearing noise from that. Were the wheels switched from front to back for a rotation recently so that you are now hearing a noise from the tire tread while you didn't hear it on the rear?
If you didn't have a tire rotation, I would suggest having a tire store rotate them or go to the place that did your wheel bearings and have them check the replacement bearings and rotate the tires front to back for you. Then see if the noise has left, changed, or is still there.
If it's still there, then bearings...
If it left, take a close look at tires, life, and replacement.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
A second vote that the tires are the source of the noise - and the tires are generating that noise due to irregular wear - and the irregular wear is due to a misalignment condition.
You need to replace the tires to get rid of that noise or put up with it until you do. Rotating will help, but that only moves the problem tires from a sensitive position to an insensitive one. That really isn't a "fix".
Count me on the "good chance it's a tire" team, especially with the noise coming in a certain speed range after the bearings have been replaced. At the very least, rotating the tires will either move the noise and confirm it's a tire, or the noise will remain where it is and confirm that a replacement bearing may be bad. And it's the cheapest first step
Let me add that my experience at that was with 8-year old Michelins on my 98 leSabre. I had replaced the front wheel bearing. About a year later I had this similar sound. My shadetree expert up the street was too busy to catch to have him drive the car. When I replaced the bearing, under warranty, I still had the noise. He drove the car and felt the tires. He used to work in a tire store as manager in his earlier life around cars.
He said it was the tires. And indeed later, one of the tires started to show belt problems with a bulge.
So it comes down to diagnosis before replacement.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Anyone else still driving a Vibe experiencing these issues? Any positive solutions (other than replacing the car)?
The plastic parts around the wheel well on my Cobalt are held with screws that screw into the metal parts of the body. A few are clipped with the plastic studs to other plastic.
Also take a look at any air dam that's under the front of the car. If it's not secured or it broken into pieces, those can flap under a car. I've seen cars, sometimes premium cars, on the highway where the pieces of the damaged air dam is fluttering and can be seen from behind or beside the car from a couple lanes over.
I've also seen toyota sedans with the rear plastic bumper wrap around behind the rear wheel flapping in and out because it's not properly braced. I wonder if the passengers can hear that fluttering as a road noise, not realizing their rear plastic parts are fluttering away.
You might have to have someone drive the car while you watch from another car.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,